# Fractures at Thorntons, LLC
> OSHA SIR `2025077362` · 7/28/2025 · CARY, ILLINOIS
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Back  lumbar region
- **Nature of injury:** Fractures
## Cause
- **Event:** Other fall to lower level  less than 6 feet
- **Source:** Step ladders
- **Secondary source:** Other constructed surface
## Employer
- **Name:** Thorntons, LLC
- **Location:** 800 Northwest Highway, CARY, ILLINOIS, 60013
- **NAICS:** 447110
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was stocking product in a cooler. While stepping down the last step of a three-step stool, the employee lost footing and fell backward, landing on her tailbone. Her L1 vertebra was fractured.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*